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Depressed 28-Year-Old Dutch Woman to Legally End Her Life in May

8 points by okasaki 3y ago

okasaki 3y ago
We are slipping down the slope to hell...
- quantified 3y ago
  The earth goes 584 million miles per year, and it's over 500 million years until the sun grows big enough to fry the earth. So say 2.5x10^17 miles to slip. Not gonna worry just yet.
sylware 3y ago
This is just wrong, very wrong.
- clipsy 3y ago
  Why?
  - sylware 3y ago
    So you think "depressed" is enough... well, let's agree to disagree.
    - quantified 3y ago
      Interesting that you've put depressed in quotes, as though having hell in your head isn't real.
      - sylware 3y ago
        and how you quantify enough hell in their heads which will never change for sure and for forever?
- bartonfink 3y ago
  Nothing wrong about someone in pain exercising their choice to stop that pain. I support her. I think it's cruel for you to sentence an adult you have never met to decades of suffering because you don't have the stones to accept her choice. Be a better person. Show some compassion.
  - sinuhe69 3y ago
    Yes, I also strongly believe that the agency to one’s own life belongs to the most fundamental human rights and absolutely necessary for the human dignity. Why the law, i.e. the conventions or views of other people, should decide what I may or may not do with my own body/life is absolutely beyond me. Yes, the law may forbid other people to actively assist such endeavors because of the serious possibility of abusing. But, ending one’s own life could be a liberation in same cases. Forcing someone to endure ceaseless, utter pain and hopelessness is tantamount torturing and abusing, and in my view is absolutely horrific and despicable in every way. Human dignity is inviolable. This includes ending one’s own life with dignity.
defrost 3y ago
Previously on Hacker News: (12 comments, 4 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915254 (165 comments, 3 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927759
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8 points by okasaki 3y ago

okasaki 3y ago

We are slipping down the slope to hell...

quantified 3y ago
The earth goes 584 million miles per year, and it's over 500 million years until the sun grows big enough to fry the earth. So say 2.5x10^17 miles to slip. Not gonna worry just yet.

sylware 3y ago

This is just wrong, very wrong.

clipsy 3y ago
Why?
- sylware 3y ago
  So you think "depressed" is enough... well, let's agree to disagree.
  - quantified 3y ago
    Interesting that you've put depressed in quotes, as though having hell in your head isn't real.
    - sylware 3y ago
      and how you quantify enough hell in their heads which will never change for sure and for forever?
bartonfink 3y ago
Nothing wrong about someone in pain exercising their choice to stop that pain. I support her. I think it's cruel for you to sentence an adult you have never met to decades of suffering because you don't have the stones to accept her choice. Be a better person. Show some compassion.
- sinuhe69 3y ago
  Yes, I also strongly believe that the agency to one’s own life belongs to the most fundamental human rights and absolutely necessary for the human dignity. Why the law, i.e. the conventions or views of other people, should decide what I may or may not do with my own body/life is absolutely beyond me. Yes, the law may forbid other people to actively assist such endeavors because of the serious possibility of abusing. But, ending one’s own life could be a liberation in same cases. Forcing someone to endure ceaseless, utter pain and hopelessness is tantamount torturing and abusing, and in my view is absolutely horrific and despicable in every way. Human dignity is inviolable. This includes ending one’s own life with dignity.

defrost 3y ago

Previously on Hacker News: (12 comments, 4 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915254 (165 comments, 3 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927759

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